Dogs, two worlds apart: In celebration of National Pet Month, October 2023

                                           Dogs, two worlds apart

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

The genes of the wolf come alive

where the ultimate game is to survive;

the species born in the wild

must in anywhere thrive.

Pity these dogs if they are man's best friend,

Else man is dogs' worst fiend.

 

Doomed these pets are - care to hate, to abandon - 

where have all the loving and caring hands gone?

how empty their eyes are, where love once shone,   

longing for their masters and their homes bygone.

Test the rational side of man

the way he puts a stand

on behalf of his best friend

all the way to the end.

 

Who is sad, who is happy?

To be tame, to be bold;

the drama of life to unfold

between man and dog.

 

What a loss if help did come late;

innocence to both is no excuse.

Remembering the rescuer, White Bulldog;

and the children have found another world;

their language no longer whims and bark

nor friendly pat and leisure in the park.

A dog's yelp is a language of its own, 

expression of thanks for caring; 

a call, we humans simply understand, 

out of our thought and feeling. ~